[thelist] web magazines etc?

[Joel Canfield]

| > I have always enjoyed Web Techniques.  They offer a free
| subscription
| > to most anyone, and in the past have had consistently good articles
| > from renowned techs.  I really enjoyed the good article:ad ratio.
| >
| > As of this month, they're referring to themselves as
| new.architect and
| > Microsoft is putting posters in it.  We'll see whether the
| marketing
| > folks trample the good content in the long run.
| > http://www.newarchitectmag.com/
| >
|
| I would be _very_ interested in hearing people's opinion
| about their change. As far as I know, this mag was the only
| one that didn't focus too heavily on marketing crap. Ie, I
| don't care if company A is buying company B, or how CRM is
| the next 'big' thing, or how company C used CMS to increase
| their profits 100% - I want to read articles about _building_
| a CMS or using CRM with Java - whatever. When I read about
| their changes last month, my heart sank. It sounds like they
| are going to turn into InternetWorld - which is just about
| useless to me now.
|
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| Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia
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I've only skimmed, not read deeply, but I saw more content I'm interested in
than in most past issues. Too blurry for a detailed analysis, but I'm
keeping my subscription. I think it's worthwhile.

<aside>What up with the Microsoft thing? If you pull the big fad wad of a
poster out, all that's left (on that page) is the MS logo in the corner. Did
anyone consider printing a tiny little identifying/marketing blurb in the
now blank space in the center? If anyone leafs thru the mag after me, unless
they look at the BACK side of that page, they'll have no clue what it was
about. And even if they DO look at the back, it's just a pic of the product,
nothing promotional.</aside>

joel